Benefits
Details
- Location:Gloucester
- Background check required:None
- Closing Date:20 June 2025
- Flexible working available:No

We are looking for a Works Manager based in Gloucester to take responsibility for overseeing of all the multi-disciplined main site works. Is this you?
Kier Highways Major Projects South have been appointed as principal contractor for the delivery of the A417-Missing Link in Gloucestershire. The project will consist of 5.5km of new dual carriageway and 7 new build structures.
Can you envision a world without transportation links by land, sea, or air? Neither can we! Your journey is our journey. Join us at Kier Transportation, where we are working brilliantly together to make a difference, supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.
Location: Gloucester – site based
Contract: Permanent, Fulltime
Salary: £62,000 - £66,000 + £6.7k annual car allowance + private healthcare + benefits
Responsibilities
As a Work Manager, you'll be Implementing safe systems of work for site activities, ensuring the highest standards of health, safety and welfare are maintained ensuring projects are safely delivered on time, to budget and achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction. You'll also develop strong working relationships with the construction manager, project managers and project directors.
Your day to day will include:
- Ensure adequate levels of supervision are in place for operations on site
- Ensuring work is carried out to the correct specification and QA standards
- Deliver work packages to agreed programmes and liaise with operational delivery teams
- Oversee the co-ordination of operatives, subcontractors and suppliers in a planned and controlled manner ensuring efficiency and minimising costs
- Attendance at regular meetings to ensure clear communication channels are in place, to report on progress; identify problems encountered and any variations to project both internally and externally
Who are we looking for?
This role of Work Manager is great for you if have:
- Experience in a similar role within highways/construction
- CSCS card holder
- SMSTS
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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